Limbaugh Jokingly Says Trump Putin Meeting to Rig Future Elections

Rush Limbaugh jokingly suggested Friday that President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in private at the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany to “plot the rigging of future elections.”

Trump and Putin had their first face-to-face meeting at the Summit, where they spoke privately for over two hours. Trump raised the issue of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections, where Putin denied any involvement in the meddling.

“They had a very robust and lengthy exchange on the subject,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said. “The president pressed President Putin on more than one occasion regarding Russian involvement. President Putin denied such involvement, as I think he has in the past.”

Limbaugh made references to comments by CNN analyst Jackie Calmes, who said she did not see Putin “display confidence” in his meeting with Trump because Putin didn’t look Trump in the eye.

“There’s some babe on CNN, some analyst, analyzing the Trump-Putin meeting is going on longer than expected. Isn’t it obvious? Trump and Putin are already plotting the 2020 election, probably doing some things on the 2018 midterms. What else could be going on? What in the world else is there?” Limbaugh said.

“So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised when a panelist at CNN thinks that Putin is the strongman, that Putin is the alpha male, that Putin is the dominant figure, and that Trump’s the one that ought to be weaseling up there and asking for permission to be in Putin’s presence,” Limbaugh said.

Limbaugh said the mainstream media would probably pick up his comments about Putin and Trump conducting a private meeting to conspire on how to rig the 2020 presidential elections.

“But I won’t be surprised if at some point later today, tomorrow or over the weekend, that it shows up on some media site that I suggested that the reason the meeting between Trump and Putin went long is because they’re plotting the ’20 (election),” he said.

“Because these people believe it! These people like at CNN? They literally … have immersed themselves in it for so long now; they literally believe that’s the explanation for the election last November,” Limbaugh said.

“Trump and Putin got together and they’re plotting 2020 or maybe even the 2018 midterms — and maybe, maybe, maybe Trump was asking Putin if he found Hillary’s 33,000 emails. And if he did, would he let Trump see them? That’s probably on the agenda,” he said.

The radio host said it was perplexing to see CNN panelists and Jackie Calmes describe Putin’s inability to project confidence around Trump as bad.

“When Putin was in a room with Obama, he sat back; he had not a care in the world. It was almost like he was disrespecting Obama. He was just telegraphing disrespect. But it was a different Putin that I saw with Trump. He looked down a lot. There was no steely confidence,” Rush said while summarizing Calmes’ statement.

“Of course, the truth is Putin would have to stare at the sky to look Trump in the eye because Putin is a shrimp compared to Trump. What is Putin, 5′ 5″? People don’t know this but he could slither into a tank here with no problem whatsoever. He’s a tiny guy,” Limbaugh said.